Human Touch Quotes

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Mya Robarts
“The human touch is that little snippet of physical affection that brings a bit of comfort, support, and kindness. It doesn’t take much from the one who gives it, but can make a huge difference in the one who receives it.”
Mya Robarts, The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story

Bobby Fischer
“Nothing eases suffering like human touch.”
Bobby Fischer, Chess Meets of the Century

Tom Spanbauer
“Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?”
Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

Dan Pearce
“Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.”
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Carson McCullers
“After such mornings he returned to the show with relief. It eased him to push through the crowds of people. The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves.”
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Uday Mukerji
“A human touch is explosive. It’s so warm that it melts away everything, including our ego.”
Uday Mukerji, Dead Man Dreaming

Alexander McCall Smith
“It is such an easy thing to do—to touch another in sympathy—but it is such a hard thing too.”
Alexander McCall Smith, The Revolving Door of Life

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“There is no doubt that you will touch a life today. It's just the manner in which you choose to do so, and how that will leave both yourself and everyone you touched once it's over.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Cinda Williams Chima
“All at once it seemed like too much of a betrayal to continue to pretend that his brother was delirious, hallucinating, not in his right mind. Lying when he was telling the truth. Maybe Kenzie was right-maybe secrets were more the problem than the solution. Maybe Kenzie was the only clearheaded person in that room.
And yet-he couldn't supress a twinge of fear that if he told the truth, he'd never see Emma again. Never hear her music again. Their musical connection was the closest he'd ever come to slacking his thirst for a human touch.”
Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

Harjeet Khanduja
“Human touch is a premium thing.”
Harjeet Khanduja, Nothing About Business

Tilly Lawless
“Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch.”
Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body